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Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India
From: David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:51:51 -0600
On Mar 10, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
The more telling fallacy here that really speaks to the heart of why I am dismayed and disappointed by ICANN's management of the whole TLD mess is the idea that a CCTLD is the property of a TLD operator to begin with.
Your dismay and disappointment may be relieved by doing a bit of research. Management of country code top-level domains is treated by ICANN as national sovereignty issue. ICANN has limited say in who runs a ccTLD (it must be done according to the wishes of the "local Internet community") and technical matters related to how that ccTLD is managed (e.g., ICANN, through the IANA root management functions places certain (minimal) technical requirements on the operation of the TLD name servers).
The .IN TLD is property of the Indian people or worst case, the government of India acting in their stead. (or at least it should be if ICANN and/or Verisign and their competitors haven't managed to completely usurp the public trust.
You might want to read RFC 1591, ICP-1, and/or the ICANN GAC principles before passing judgement. Regards, -drc
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- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India, (continued)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Anurag Bhatia (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Joel jaeggli (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Bill Woodcock (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Jonathan Lassoff (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Owen DeLong (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Doug Barton (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Rubens Kuhl (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India David Conrad (Mar 10)
- ccTLD operators do not "rule", was Re: Concern about ... Edward Lewis (Mar 11)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Frank Habicht (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Graham Beneke (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Anurag Bhatia (Mar 09)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Robert E. Seastrom (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Dobbins, Roland (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Graham Beneke (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India John Levine (Mar 10)
- Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India Eric Brunner-Williams (Mar 10)